Visa Embeds Payment Network Into ChatGPT on June 10—AI Agents Can Now Shop Across 175 Million Merchant Locations
ChatGPT can now spend your money. Visa just wired 175 million stores into OpenAI’s agent layer—with spending limits and fraud checks,…
Apple Rebuilds Siri on Google’s 1.2-Trillion-Parameter Gemini Model—$1 Billion Annual Deal Announced June 8 at WWDC 2026
Apple just paid Google $1 billion per year to make Siri intelligent. The company that built its brand on privacy now routes your voice queries…
Google DeepMind Launches AlphaGenome on June 25—AI Processes 1 Million DNA Base Pairs at Single-Nucleotide Resolution, Wins 22 of 24 Benchmarks
DeepMind just made every specialized genomics model obsolete in a single release. AlphaGenome processes 1 million DNA base pairs at once—and…
China’s AI Companion Rules Take Effect July 15, 2026—Five Agencies Ban Virtual Partners for Minors, Mandate Addiction Detection
Five Chinese government agencies just created the world’s first dedicated regulation for emotionally interactive AI, banning virtual…
ChatGPT Tasks Launches in Beta on January 15, 2025—OpenAI Adds Scheduled Automation for Paid Subscribers with 10-Task Limit
OpenAI shipped scheduled automation inside ChatGPT on January 14, 2025, capping it at ten tasks per user. The company that built the…
US Government Forces Anthropic to Disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 at 5:21 PM on June 12—Cybersecurity Experts Call Export Control ‘Dangerous’
The US government killed the world’s most advanced AI models in four hours. Security experts say that makes America less safe, not more.
Definely Raises $30M Series B Led by Revaia—Legal AI Workflow Startup Attracts Clio on June 16, 2025
Clio just invested in a company that automates the work Clio’s own customers do manually. That’s not competition—that’s…
Harvey Raises Second $300M Round of 2025 at $5 Billion Valuation—Legal AI Startup Closes Series E on June 23
Two $300 million rounds in six months. Harvey just proved that legal AI has crossed from experiment to enterprise category, and the velocity…
Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed Hits 1,000 Tokens/Second on 8-GPU Node—Claims 15X Faster Than ChatGPT and Claude
A Chinese smartphone company just outpaced OpenAI and Anthropic on inference speed by a factor of 15, using hardware any enterprise can…
OpenAI Launches o3-pro at $80 Per Million Output Tokens on June 10—Beats Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude 4 Opus on Math and Science Benchmarks
OpenAI just told developers that thinking costs money—$80 per million output tokens, to be exact. The company’s new o3-pro model doubles…
